Thriller Genre: Storylines

Thriller films have story lines that are highly based upon the inclusion of thrill, suspense and build up of emotions to further draw the audience in. The use of anticipation in thriller story lines is to build up and prolong the events within a story. Many of the events used are to help provide an enigma to the viewers allowing them to anticipate events that are about to take place, when these events are prolonged viewers are gained with a thrill and edge of seat experience in which the audience almost feasts upon.

This prolonged pausing of the action or thrilling moment is used to make the viewer feel they were wrong about the enigma created through build-up and tension. then once the thrill has taken place,viewers are given either a sense of  pleasure and satisfaction if they figured out where or what the thrilling or story centred event was, or those whom haven't figured this out are drawn deeper into the story by the twisting and sudden change of pace in the story line.
There are a few story lines and narratives that count as conventions for thriller genre plots. In current years this has been the use of conspiratorial based plots, or the more classic murder mystery or action film.
In more classic depictions of thriller films story lines consist of a battle between either a protagonist and antagonist in which there is a disruption of a normal situation, with the aim of restoring this.
Other storylines tend to be based on the horror elements that involve a main character, mainly female, in which is plagued by a maleficent spirit in which provides a shock and thrill of the viewer by restricting what perspective of the narrative they can see.
However more recent depictions of thrillers involve the use of government conspiracies and the development of terrorist plots with the use of action. This action type of thriller uses builds up of criminally insane people either kidnapping or trying to commit a illegal act such as theft of large amounts money and hostage situations to draw the viewer in, with acts of violence and bravery to further the story. They tend to follow many plot points to further the narrative such as in "die hard", in which John Maclain is told to cure jet lag by rubbing his feet on a carpet. This later proves to be his weakness when Hanz Gurber tells his terrorists to shoot the glass, which weakens John and leads to the terrorists finding him.